PocketBase is a self-hosted cloud database that aims to simplify and streamline your database management. In this tutorial, we will walk you through the steps to install PocketBase on Arch Linux.
Before installing PocketBase, ensure that you have met the following requirements:
PocketBase uses Git for version control. Start by cloning the PocketBase repository to your machine with the command below:
git clone https://github.com/pocketbase/pocketbase.git
Navigate to the repository folder with the command:
cd pocketbase
Create a copy of the .env.example file:
cp .env.example .env
Edit the .env file to match your preferences or default values. If you intend to use the default values, then you can skip this step.
vim .env
PocketBase uses Docker and Docker Compose to create containers, which makes deployment and installation easier. The command below will start the PocketBase services.
docker-compose up -d
After starting the services, initialize the database. The PocketBase instance requires an initial database schema.
docker-compose exec database sh -c "mysql < /docker-entrypoint-initdb.d/schema.sql"
Create a new user account by running this command:
docker-compose exec app php /var/www/html/artisan statement:login
This will generate a URL that you can use to create an administrative account for PocketBase.
Now that you have an administrative account, you can access the PocketBase dashboard by visiting http://YOUR_SERVER_IP:8000 in your web browser.
In this tutorial, we walked through the installation of PocketBase, highlighting the entire process starting from cloning the repository, modifying the .env file to creating a new user account, and lastly, accessing the PocketBase dashboard. Enjoy building powerful apps with PocketBase!
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